The coast of myrtle beach, South Carolina. Tonight, military crews are jam bling to recover the wreckage, and china is responding angrily. Meanwhile, President Biden says he and u. S. Military leaders decided to wait until the balloon completed its crosscountry journey and was safely overwater before shooting it down. Listen to this. On wednesday when i was briefed on the balloon, i ordered the pentagon to shoot it down on wednesday as soon as possible. Cnn has Team Coverage of this extraordinary moment in u. S. China relations. I want to start with cnns Orin Lieberman over at the palm. Walk us through what happened earlier today. This was days of planning to get to this point, to figure out how best to shoot this balloon down and where best to shoot this balloon down. In the end, the Department Of Defense recommended waiting until it was out overwater and the prevailing winds over the United States, especially over the course of the past day, took it out over the waters of north and S
i want to talk about documents. this program. on my radio show, on my appearances on hannity and other shows in this network i ve been saying for months, all presidents, vice presidents, attorney generals, starts secretaries of states have taken documents home, some have kept them. and some have been classified. that needs to be looked into. i guess because i m not officially a legal analyst, i have my own show, and a constitutional lawyer, and a former chief of staff to attorney general. the department of the justice unleashed a criminal investigation to former president, president trump, in ways that have never been done before in american history, they didn t bother to look at obama s records or clinton s or george w. bush s records, they didn t look at cheney s records or gore s records or then vice president biden s records or bill barr or eric holder, we know about hill clinton and former secretaries of state. they didn t put them under oath, none of that. so none of th
i want to talk about documents. this program. on my radio show, on my appearances on hannity and other shows in this network i ve been saying for months, all presidents, vice presidents, attorney generals, starts o secretaries of states have taken documents home, some have kept them. and some have been classified. that needs to be looked into. i guess because i m not officially a legal analyst, i have my own show, and a constitutional lawyer, and a former chief of staff to attorney general. the department of the justice unleashed a criminal investigation to former president, president trump, in ways that have never been done before in american history, they didn t bother to look at obama s records or clinton s or george w. bush s records, they didn t look at cheney s records or gore s records or then vice president biden s records or bill barr or eric holder, we know about hill clinton and former secretaries of state. they didn t put them under oath, none of that. so none of
would like to live a long life, longevity has its place, but i m not concerned about that now. i just want to do god s will. and he s allowed me to go up to the mountain, and i ve looked over, and i ve seen the promised land. i may not get there with you but i want you to know tonight that we as a people will get to the promised land. a haunting speech from reverend martin luther king jr. delivered the night before he was assassinated in memphis. we ll be honoring dr. king this morning and exploring his legacy throughout the morning on morning joe. also ahead this hour, we ll have the latest developments on the classified documents found at president biden s home, and the gop s false equivalency when it comes to this discovery. hundreds of files of donald trump tried to stash away at mar-a-lago, to equate is a little tough. congress is on the clock to raise the country s debt limit. it comes after a dire warning from treasury secretary janet yellen. plus, we ll get a live
getting up way too early ton friday morning and all weekend long. morning joe starts now. aides found classified documents inside his delaware home. he has had them for a while because a lot of them have to do with the louisiana purchase. the justice department is taking this seriously. today the attorney general appointed a special counsel to investigate biden s handling of the documents. i m not saying biden is getting worried, but he just texted rudy giuliani, so you go, wow, that s not good. that s not good. all right. republicans get the special counsel they have been calling for to investigate president biden s handling of classified documents. it comes as we are learning more about the files and where they were found. we ll also take a look at some of the hypocrisy inside the gop when it comes to the special counsels for trump and biden. meanwhile, a prominent republican says it is time for the party to move on from former president donald trump, calling him